At 10:48 24-12-01 -0800, Jeffrey Miller wrote: > > Do you realise that it is exactly your kind of attitude that will prevent > > peace? It is the kind of hardlining you and your government display that > > stands in the way of the peace process. If Israel maintains it > > black-and-white idea of "Israel good, Arabs evil" it will never know peace. > >Jeroen, this seems to be the core of your position on Israel, yes/no?
Guess so. As long as Israel keeps those territories occupied and keeps treating the Palestinians there like third-rate people, peace in the Middle East will not be achieved. > > >In my opinion it could help very much if > > >Palestinians believed that there would be reaction to each terrorist act. > > > > Israel has this policy of destroying homes of families of Palestinian > > terrorists and launching helicopter attacks on buildings of Palestinian > > government and police after terrorist attacks. I would say that qualifies > > as "reaction to each terrorist act". > >..further, in the decades this conflict hs been going on, has this been >shown to have any impact on terrorist actions? I do not think so. I believe it is more like: - Arabs attack Israel - Israel retaliates in revenge - Arabs retaliate for that - Israel strikes back - etcetera... Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com Tom's Photo Gallery: http://tom.vanbaardwijk.com
